Ram question?

[JOHNGALT99]

I am currently running a windows 2003 server for ftp and file and print sharing.

I have four 250 GB hard drives in it and there is alot of writing to the drives and also netwrork traffic on its
Gigabyte ethernet card.


Right now I am running it with two 256 MB 2700 DDR ram chips in Dual Channel.

However the nforce2 motherboard has four ram slots and I have two extra 256 MB ram chips.

The question is am I better off using all four ram chips for a total of 1 Gig of ram or is the two 256 MB in dual
channel better for my situtation?

Thanks for the help

 

[mechBgon]

The only nF2 board I remember with four memory slots are Gigabyte, is that what you've got?

Of your modules, how many are single-sided versus double-sided? A lot of the time you can discern this simply by whether they have chips on both surfaces or just one. nForce2 will run up to six "sides." If you have the Gigabyte board with four slots, here's their info, note the DS and SS for "double-sided" and "single-sided."

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/m...RO2_MEMORY_LOADOUT.gif

I'd think the important thing is the quantity of RAM, since the OS can buffer some frequently-requested files in the extra RAM, rather than having to drag those files out from the hard drives every time they're wanted. Even single-channel PC2700 is way faster than a hard drive.